First 15 Lessons - Acoustic Guitar

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Popular Songs!-The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner complete with audio tracks video lessons and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away with a free online tuner and metronome! The acoustic guitar book features lessons on: guitar fundamentals music reading chords strumming arpeggios time signatures syncopation hammer-ons & pull-offs doublestops harmonics fingerpicking alternate picking and scales & basic theory. Includes guitar parts from 31 songs: Body like a Back Road • Change the World • Dust in the Wind • Eleanor Rigby • Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) • The House of the Rising Sun • Imagine • Love Story • More Than a Feeling • The Reason • Someone like You • Thinking Out Loud • Unchained Melody • and more...

In this second volume of The Acoustic Guitar Method series for beginning guitarists you'll expand on Book 1 and continue to learn traditional American music using authentic techniques and songs! Learn how to play alternating bass notes in a country backup pattern how to combine chords and classic bass runs and how to play your first fingerpicking patterns. You'll find out what makes a major scale work and what blues notes do to a melody all while learning more notes on the fingerboard and more great songs from the American roots repertoire. Whether you are studying with a teacher or on your own this comprehensive approach with graded lessons andsupplementary songs is the tool you need to get started!

This is the first in a series of beginning method books that uses traditional American music to teach authentic techniques and songs. From the folk blues and old-time music of yesterday have come the rock country and jazz of today. This method will give you a foundation for understanding playing and enjoying these essential traditions and styles on the instrument that truly represents American music: the acoustic guitar. Working in both tablature and standard notation you'll learn how to find notes on the fingerboard a variety of basic chords and strums country backup basics waltz time and melodies with half notes and rests. At the end you'll knowdozens of the tunes that form the backbone of American music and you’ll be able to play them using a variety of flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques! Whether you are studying with a teacher or on your own this comprehensive approach with graded lessons and supplementary songs is the tool you need to get started!

Four lessons: Strumming Chords Fingerstyle Basics Travis Picking and Capo Basics and uses the riffs of sixteen songs including Brown Eyed Girl Dust In The Wind Free Fallin' and Maggie May.A first of its kind the At A Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience.Each pack features several lessons pertaining to one topic and the DVD lessons feature on-screen music from a vast array of classic songs.

Par THOMAS LINDA G.. Premières leçons Hammered Dulcimer est conçu pour informer les joueurs de début sur l'instrument. Les mélodies de cette collection comprennent une variété d'hymnes, musique de vacances et fiddle tunes, écrits en notation standard, avec des instructions sur comment lire la notation. Paroles et accords suggérées pour les instruments qui l'accompagne sont également inclus. Le CD accompagne offre deux pistes pour chaque sélection : un spectacle suivre avec guitare rythmique et une piste d'enseignement avec démonstration détaillée de phrase par phrase. L'instruction audio guidée à un tempo lent va s'avérer précieuse pour le joueur 'à l'oreille'. Cette méthode fournit une approche ' leçon privée ' pour le succès sur le dulcimer martelé. -Conçu pour instruire les joueurs de début. -Inclut une variété d'hymnes, de musique de vacances et des airs de violon. -Ecrit en notation standard. -Paroles et suggérés chords inclus CD d'accompagnement, y compris deux pistes pour chaque sélection : une piste de performance et une piste d'instruction. / Niveau : Débutant / Acoustic Music - Methods / Méthode / Dulcimer (Cordes frappées)

An Introduction and First Lesson for Teens and Preteens for Acoustic or Electric Guitar-Play a musical instrument just like the rock stars! All you need is the desire to learn and the willingness to have some fun while you are doing it. UBSjr is an interactive learning experience that gets down to the basics fast! You set the pace. Practice along with someone who is learning just like you. In no time you will be on your way to playing like a star. With UBSjr learning will be fun. You will participate in lots of activities and exercises and even learn some songs. Your ability and progress will come naturally without ever feeling like you were being taught. Here are some of the important skills and information you'll pick up as part of this excitingprogram: Types of guitars Parts of the guitar How to hold the guitar How to tune the guitar Correct playing technique The meaning of melody harmony and rhythm How to find the beat Beginning notes Beginning chords and power chords Various musical terms and symbols How to practice Accessories This DVD makes learning fun and easy with endless interactive features to access bonus materials that reinforce key areas and give helpful tips. Bonus Educational Material: Types of guitars/buying a guitar Parts of the guitar Tuning notes Audio examples for exercises and songs Beginning music theory interactive Listening recommendations Performance applications Additional product previews Educational booklet included Getting to know the instruments DVD-ROM Features: Printable reference materials Practice worksheets and puzzles Bonus lessons Internet Connectivity Play-along audio tracks Note to parents: This program is designed to inspire younger students to use their creativity while developing a lifetime appreciation for music. They'll be proud of their accomplishment and so will you..

This deluxe edition of the world-famous method by Will Schmid and Greg Koch includes online access to 48 online audio tracks and 30 minutes of video lessons! The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and it also reflects some of the best guitar teaching ideas from around the world. Book 1 includes: tuning - playing position - musical symbols - notes in first position - C, G, G7, D, G7, A7 and Em chords - rhythms through eighth notes - strumming and picking - 100 great songs, riffs and examples. / Guitare

1 - Starting From Scratch-Celebrated instructor Happy Traum guides you through the first steps in learning fingerstyle blues guitar. In this DVD intended for novice players you'll discover the basic blues forms along with a series of easy steps to develop your playing technique around a variety of characteristic tunes. Disciplines include:Syncopated progressions12-bar and 8-bar formsBass runsDozens of turnarounds intros and endings. Happy's lessons are packed with numerous tips and suggestions as well as invaluable information about music theory and musicianship. As you conquer each step your playing will become stronger and more confident and you'll be well onyour way to becoming an accomplished blues guitarist. Music and tablature are included.

2 - Essentials Of Fingerstyle Blues-The second in Happy Traum's tutorial series for the novice guitarist introduces you to the world of fingerstyle blues guitar. Building upon the basics established in the first DVD (Catalogue No. HL00641834) Traum's lessons will give you the skills to create bass pulses with your thumb whilst picking out the tunes and syncopations on the upper strings. The result is a rich self-accompanying sound full of groove and swing!Traum's Easy Steps method reduces these key techniques into smaller modules that can be digested quickly and easily. Through carefully constructed exercises these techniques become gradually more complex and advanced allowing your playing to growat your own pace.You will learn how to break up your chords as well as the funky 'Lightnin' Hopkins Lick'. There are shuffle and boogie-woogie basslines solo riffs scales and chord progressions all just waiting to be absorbed into your playing to develop your own unique country-blues sound.